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Chromosome fibers studied by a spreading technique

Chromosomes and interphase nuclei can be spread on the surface of water in a simplified Langmuir trough. Interphase nuclei of Triturus erythrocytes display fibers with a diameter of about 250–300 Å. Very similar fibers are seen in metaphase chromosomes of cultured human cells. Fibers from grasshopper spermatocyte chromosomes (prophase) are more variable in diameter, and many fibers thinner than 200 Å extend laterally from the chromosome. In the grasshopper spermatocyte, fibers align in parallel to form plates. It is suggested that the 250–300 Å fibers may represent an inactive state of the chromosome material, and that only the thinner fibers are involved in RNA synthesis. The 250–300 Å fibers may result from the folding or coiling of a thinner fiber having the approximate dimensions of the nucleohistone molecule.

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1. Department of Biology, Yale University, New Haven

   Joseph G. Gall

Gall, J.G. Chromosome fibers studied by a spreading technique. Chromosoma 20, 221–233 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00335209

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• Received: 26 August 1966

• Issue Date: June 1966

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00335209

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